What My Brother Knew

For readers who were inspired by Alua Arthur’ s Briefly Perfectly Human, an emotional, eye-opening account of one woman’ s journey from loss and abuse to healing and spiritual awakening.

As a boy, Jay Amelong predicted the accident that caused his death, down to the color of the car that hit him. “ I will die young, while riding my bike, ” he told friends and family repeatedly. “ It won’ t be much longer, I want you to be prepared. ” These were baffling words to hear from the mouth of a content thirteen-year-old— but when Kristina Amelong was only seventeen, her brother’ s tragic death unfolded exactly as he said it would, radically changing her life.

Propelled down a self-destructive path of drug addiction and reckless sex, Kristina spent much of her young adult years wanting to die. Once or twice she came close. Always, Jay’ s bizarre story and his inexplicable acceptance of his own death lived in her body.

More than thirty years after losing Jay, Kristina embarks on a journey of discovery, seeking truth about herself, her brother, and the universe. The result of her investigation is a memoir that defies belief. Charting a life path from loss and abuse to healing and spiritual awakening, What My Brother Knew demonstrates the transformative power of facing the mystery of death head-on and our incredible ability, as humans, to do just that.